The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-18
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II. II. SKILEs is suing the Wabash railroad for
30 acres of Kansas City land worth S1,000,0Oo.
HUNG SuEN, the new Chinese Ambassador at
Berlin, has arrived there with an imposing suite,
and chest upon chest of curious draperies,
which the Berlinese hope will be also suspended
soon
In Coventry, England, Maj. Knox Holmes, so
years of age, recently took part in a thirty-tive
mile tricycle. race and came off one of the win
ners He made quarter of mile in forty nine
seconds.
Mr.. RUFUS c. HARTRANFT, Of Philadelphia,
has one of the largest and most complete col
lections Of old American plays in existence.
There are more than 10000 distinct titles in his
catalogue.
IT is SAID that Cincinnati is the most crowded
city in the country outside of New York. In
Cincinnati the average is fourteen people to
every house. In most of the great inland cities
1t is from six to ten
A CITIZEN of Toronto, Canada, was arrested
and fined the other day for displaying a Union
Jack in front of his place of business with a
pacard attached notifying pasSers-by that they
could find bargains in clothing within.
a LITTLE BOY was arrested in Hartford, Conn,
for the theft of some turnps from a farmers
wagon. 1t appeared that subsequently the
farmer sold the lot as bushel, and as that was
charged
Mr.. A. WRIGHT SANFORD, of New York, is
member of more than dozen fashionable clubs
and pays in his annual dues enough to support
half a dozen families. He is the iollieSt sort of
favorite in all the clubs but is about to take a
sea voyage to benefit his health,
The first cremation in Michigan occurred in
Detroit Saturday in crematory erected by a
stock company, DR.. Hugo Ericsen being the
promoter OF the enterprise. The body cremated
was that of Mrs. Barbara Schow of Millerburg,
O., whose dying wish was that her body might
be reduced to ashes
DURING the late blow on Lake Michigan part
of one of the stateroons of the late Vernon
washed ashore on Little Point An Sable, Mich.
1t was picked up by Hugh Divine and Marion
johnson and found to contain large French
plate mirror and marble slab screwed to the side
or the room. The glass was feet inch by
feet inch and many who have looked at it say
it is worth at least $50.
SEVERAL Russian women have deserved a very
fattering fame abroad. Nine. Kovalersky is
professor of high mathematics at the university
of Stockholm, Mime. Ogonovsky lectures on
Slavonc idiorns at Bologna, Nine. Novikoff has
merited a widespread reputation as a woman
politician in the scientific circles. Nine. L.
RagoZne-lttle as yet known in RuSSia--iS well
appreciated in New York for her historical in
vestigations of the East.
THE Railroad Gazette says that the mechan-
ical construction of the bicycle is well worth
study. The requisite amount of strength is
probably obtained with smaller proportion of
weight than in any other machine, and. consid-
ering the trying nature of the strains, a fair
amount of durability is obtained. The price per
pound, however about So of the best and
lghtest machines is considerably in excess of
that of almost any other machinery.
The splendid old Colonial homestead soak
lands, in Loudoun county, Virginia, belonging
to Mrs. George w. Carter, nee Miss Kate Curtis
Powell, has been placed in the hands of real
estate agents for sale. and will soon go into the
possession of strangers. The family have owned
it for over 200 years. it having been ceded to the
great grandfather of the present proprietor by
King George, to whom he was Counsellor, and
whose portrait with that of his wife, still hangs
in the ancestral hall.
CONGRESSMAN WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS has
hopes of the passage of joint resolution in the
present Congress to lease the tract of land on
the government reservation at Sandy Hook to
the National Hotel Company of New Jersey, for
the purpose of erecting thereon a mammoth
summer hotel. Mr.. Phelps says that he has no
personal interest in the matter, his only desire
being to help New Workers set new summer
resort of great attraction, and to give New
Jersey new property to tax.
SIGNoRA CRIsPI, the wife of the Ital-
ian Minister. is much interested in
the education of her country-women.
Feeling how useful a friendly inter-
course with foreign ladies would be- she means
to establish in Rome an International Ladies'
Club, where the women of all nations can meet.
A reading room will be opened and lectures
given and discussions held as to the best means
for establishing industrial schools and schools of
technical instruction for women.